This change adds a new interface DSL for specifying objects (with
methods) and interfaces (that expose objects, and optionally have their
own methods).
Significant changes:
- Add the new scripts/definitions Python module to parse the DSL
- Add the new definitions directory containing DSL definition files
- Use cog to generate syscall-related code in kernel and libj6
- Unify ordering of pointer + length pairs in interfaces
I'm a tabs guy. I like tabs, it's an elegant way to represent
indentation instead of brute-forcing it. But I have to admit that the
world seems to be going towards spaces, and tooling tends not to play
nice with tabs. So here we go, changing the whole repo to spaces since
I'm getting tired of all the inconsistent formatting.
Pull this widely-useful header out of kutil, so more things can use it.
Also replace its dependency on <type_traits> by defining our own custom
basic_types.h which contains a subset of the standard's types.
Changing the SFINAE/enable_if strategy from a type to a constexpr
function means that it can be defined in other scopes than the functions
themselves, because of function overloading. This lets us put everything
into the kutil::bitfields namespace, and make bitfields out of enums in
other namespaces. Also took the chance to clean up the implementation a
bit.
The previous method of VMA page tracking relied on the VMA always being
mapped at least into one space and just kept track of pages in the
spaces' page tables. This had a number of drawbacks, and the mapper
system was too complex without much benefit.
Now make VMAs themselves keep track of spaces that they're a part of,
and make them responsible for knowing what page goes where. This
simplifies most types of VMA greatly. The new vm_area_open (nee
vm_area_shared, but there is now no reason for most VMAs to be
explicitly shareable) adds a 64-ary radix tree for tracking allocated
pages.
The page_tree cannot yet handle taking pages away, but this isn't
something jsix can do yet anyway.
Refactored out vm_space::handle_fault's allocation code into a separate
vm_space::allocate function, and reimplemented handle_fault in terms of
the new function.
The allowed flag was janky and easy to get lost when doing page table
manipulation. All allocation goes throug vm_area now, so 'allowed' can
be dropped.
The vm_space allow() functionality was a bit janky; using VMAs for all
regions would be a lot cleaner. To that end, this change:
- Adds a "static array" ctor to kutil::vector for setting the kernel
address space's VMA list. This way a kernel heap VMA can be created
without the heap already existing.
- Splits vm_area into different subclasses depending on desired behavior
- Splits out the concept of vm_mapper which maps vm_areas to vm_spaces,
so that some kinds of VMA can be inherently single-space
- Implements VMA resizing so that userspace can grow allocations.
- Obsolete page_table_indices is removed
Also, the following bugs were fixed:
- kutil::map iterators on empty maps no longer break
- memory::page_count was doing page-align, not page-count
See: Github bug #242
See: [frobozz blog post](https://jsix.dev/posts/frobozz/)
Tags:
Finished the VMA kobject and added the related syscalls. Processes can
now allocate memory! Other changes in this commit:
- stop using g_frame_allocator and add frame_allocator::get()
- make sure to release all handles in the process dtor
- fix kutil::map::iterator never comparing to end()
vm_space and page_table continue to take over duties from
page_manager:
- creation and deletion of address spaces / pml4s
- cross-address-space copies for endpoints
- taking over pml4 ownership from process
Also fixed the bug where the wrong process was being set in the cpu
data.
To solve: now the kernel process has its own vm_space which is not
g_kernel_space.
This is the first commit of several reworking the VM system. The main
focus is replacing page_manager's global functionality with objects
representing individual VM spaces. The main changes in this commit were:
- Adding the (as yet unused) vm_area object, which will be the main
point of control for programs to allocate or share memory.
- Replace the old vm_space with a new one based on state in its page
tables. They will also be containers for vm_areas.
- vm_space takes over from page_manager as the page fault handler
- Commented out the page walking in memory_bootstrap; I'll probably need
to recreate this functionality, but it was broken as it was.
- Split out the page_table.h implementations from page_manager.cpp into
the new page_table.cpp, updated it, and added page_table::iterator as
well.
